News

Nebraska’s wheat harvest advances

Nebraska’s winter wheat harvest continued to progress northward last week and is near one-third complete.

As of Sunday, 31 percent of the wheat crop was harvested, a little behind the 40 percent average for this time of year. The wheat crop is rated 51 percent good to excellent, 29 percent fair and 20 percent poor to very poor.

Row crops in Nebraska continued to make good progress with 74 percent of the corn and 71 percent of the soybeans rated good to excellent.

The second cutting of alfalfa was 53 percent complete, but the hay harvest continued to be difficult due to frequent rains. The alfalfa crop was rated 60 percent good to excellent.

Pasture and range conditions rated 55 percent good to excellent, a slight improvement over last week.